{"id":1155,"date":"2021-03-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:38:23","slug":"flexible-travel-bookings-last-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/flexible-travel-bookings-last-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexible Travel Bookings: Last Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been living in a golden age of flight change and cancellation flexibility, though of course the reason behind that flexibility sucks. That age is about to be over \u2014 most airlines\u2019 liberal change policies on even the cheapest of fares are reverting back to normal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re booking travel, and apparently a lot of you are because <a aria-label=\"AA flights are basically full over the next couple of months (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-03-29\/american-air-to-resume-flying-most-jets-as-travel-demand-revives\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AA flights are basically full over the next couple of months<\/a>, now is the time to lock in those bookings. Book by tomorrow and even Basic Economy fares on the major US carriers can be changed for only the fare difference and in some cases they can be refunded completely. Normally they\u2019re of course non-refundable, non-changeable, and require that you wear your most uncomfortable shoes and a pair of underwear that\u2019s two sizes too small. Scoot in under the deadline to avoid that nonsense. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1253\" height=\"513\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/shoes-1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/shoes-1.png 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/shoes-1-246x300.png 246w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Sure these shoes are uncomfortable, but check out that, <em>umm let\u2019s call it<\/em>, style!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been living in a golden age of flight change and cancellation flexibility, though of course the reason behind that flexibility sucks. That age is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-housekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7325,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}